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A few weeks ago, my partially vaccinated partner and my wholly unvaccinated self got an invitation to a group dinner, held unmasked and indoors. There’d be Thai food for 10, we were promised, and two über-immunized hosts, more than two weeks out from their last Moderna doses.
And what about everyone else? I asked. Would they be fully vaccinated, too?
Well, came the response.
Not really. Some would be, some wouldn’t. But it had been so long weren’t we close enough?
The answer was of course
no, and my partner and I ended up staying home. But as the weeks wear on, I’m having more and more of these conversations with people who are struggling to navigate the new social calculus of a partly vaccinated world. Even as infection rates tick up again, people are bending, stretching, and breaking the rules governing how they should act around others: A recent Gallup poll showed that Americans’ vigilance about d
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The Johnson County Healthcare Center updated the media on their status concerning the COVID-19 virus during the EOC Briefing Tuesday.
JCHC CEO Sean McCallister said the hospital has nine inpatients, none of which are COVID-positive, and they have no staff members currently out with the virus or because of quarantine.
They have begun administering second doses of the vaccine for staff, and next week they will be giving second doses in the nursing home and assisting Public Health to give second doses to other long-term care facilities.
McCallister said that there currently is no mandate for staff to get the COVID vaccine and explained why.